{"id":2826,"date":"2020-12-17T14:25:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2020-12-18T14:28:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T22:28:56","slug":"health-center-testing-for-sars-cov-2-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-june-5-october-2-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/17\/health-center-testing-for-sars-cov-2-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-june-5-october-2-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Center Testing for SARS-CoV-2 During the COVID-19 Pandemic \u2014 United States, June 5\u2013October 2, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Patient data from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)-funded health centers found higher testing rates among members of racial\/ethnic minority groups, indicating a degree of success in the health centers&#8217; capacity to reach minority groups at increased risk for COVID-19. Among persons with known race\/ethnicity who received testing (n=2,506,935), 36% were Hispanic\/Latino, 38% were white, and 20% were Black; among those with known race\/ethnicity with positive test results, 56% were Hispanic\/Latino, 24% were white, and 15% were Black. These proportions are higher than national estimates which indicate 15% of patients tested and 12% of those who received positive test results are Black.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Romero et al. (Dec 18, 2020). Health Center Testing for SARS-CoV-2 During the COVID-19 Pandemic \u2014 United States, June 5\u2013October 2, 2020. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6950a3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6950a3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patient data from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)-funded health centers found higher testing rates among members of racial\/ethnic minority groups, indicating a degree of success in the health centers&#8217; capacity to reach minority groups at increased risk for COVID-19. Among persons with known race\/ethnicity who received testing (n=2,506,935), 36% were Hispanic\/Latino, 38% were white,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/17\/health-center-testing-for-sars-cov-2-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-june-5-october-2-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42,27],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-testing","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}